Warnie’s ban from training

It looks like Shane Warne will be barred from training with the Victorian, Australian (or even St Kilda) teams if his twelve-month ban for drug transgressions is carried out to its fullest. We’ll hear more about this. JH was asked for comment by Neil Mitchell on Melbourne’s radio 3AW this morning (August 22). Archived transcript (Source):

MITCHELL:
Prime Minister, something else – the Sports Commission is threatening funding if Shane Warne trains with the national team while he’s under the drug ban. Do you think he should be training with the national team?

PRIME MINISTER:
Well, I think he should observe in the full the conditions of the ban and I support what the Sports Commission has done.

MITCHELL:
But withholding of funding if necessary?

PRIME MINISTER:
Well, I don’t believe it will come to that but the Sports Commission is upholding the code and it’s taken the right stance and I support it.

MITCHELL:
Why? It’s always been your view that the cricket should be left to the cricket administrators.

PRIME MINISTER:
But we’re not talking here about cricket administration, you’re talking here about the vision of Government funding and the code that we support. But the cricket administrators themselves have imposed the ban, haven’t they?

MITCHELL:
Well yeah, but the cricket administrators decided he could train and in fact he is training with the Victorian team.